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Native and Naturalized (68)

  1. Pomarine Jaeger Stercorarius pomarinus
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: Santiago Imberti
    Location: At sea -52.57688, -44.19439 South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands
  2. Cliff Swallow Petrochelidon pyrrhonota
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: Niels Geelen
    Location: At sea: Falklands-South Georgia South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands
  3. Manx Shearwater Puffinus puffinus
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: Nigel Milius
    Location: Auto selected South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands
  4. Magellanic Diving-Petrel Pelecanoides magellani
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: George Swan
    Location: At sea -55.4064615, -41.1458454, GS South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands
  5. Baird's Sandpiper Calidris bairdii
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: Mark Whiffin
    Location: Bird Island South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands
  6. Atlantic Yellow-nosed Albatross Thalassarche chlororhynchos
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: Ryan Irvine
    Location: Auto selected -52.76843, -37.11864 South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands
  7. Pectoral Sandpiper Calidris melanotos
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: Scott Schuette
    Location: Stromness Whaling Station South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands
  8. Southern Rockhopper Penguin Eudyptes chrysocome
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: Mark Whiffin
    Location: Bird Island South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands
  9. American Golden-Plover Pluvialis dominica
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: Mark Whiffin
    Location: Bird Island South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands
  10. Rufous-chested Dotterel Zonibyx modestus
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: Mark Whiffin
    Location: Bird Island South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands
  11. Westland Petrel Procellaria westlandica
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: Santiago Imberti
    Location: Mar Georgias a Malvinas South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands
  12. Western Cattle-Egret Ardea ibis
    # Count: 3
    Date:
    Observer: Alan Henry
    Location: Grytviken South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands
  13. Magellanic Penguin Spheniscus magellanicus
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: Michael Schrimpf
    Location: Fortuna Bay--Whistle Cove South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands
  14. Eared Dove Zenaida auriculata
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: Santiago Imberti
    Location: Salisbury Plain South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands
  15. Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: Andrew Spencer
    Location: Shag Rocks South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands
  16. Antipodean Albatross Diomedea antipodensis
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: Santiago Imberti
    Location: South Georgia, aguas territoriales South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands
  17. Blue-winged Teal Spatula discors
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: Robert Lewis
    Location: Grytviken South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands
  18. Tristan Albatross Diomedea dabbenena
    # Count: X
    Date:
    Observer: Josep del Hoyo
    Location: Scotia Sea (-52.1605, -41.4844) South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands
  19. Subantarctic Shearwater Puffinus elegans
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: Mike Sylvia
    Location: Subantarctic Shearwater sighting South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands
  20. MacGillivray's Prion Pachyptila macgillivrayi
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: Mike Sylvia
    Location: Sea - South of SG on route to Elephant Is. South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands
  21. Great-winged Petrel Pterodroma macroptera
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: Santiago Imberti
    Location: Drygalski outside South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands
  22. Broad-billed Prion Pachyptila vittata
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: Stuart White
    Location: South Georgia general pelagic southeast--over 2 miles from shore South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands
  23. Northern Royal Albatross Diomedea sanfordi
    # Count: 2
    Date:
    Observer: Anonymous eBirder
    Location: Albatross Island. South Georgia Island, southern ocean South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands
  24. Arctic Tern Sterna paradisaea
    # Count: X
    Date:
    Observer: Chris Bowden
    Location: South Georgia South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands
  25. South Polar Skua Stercorarius maccormicki
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: John Collins
    Location: Cooper Bay South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands
  26. Gray Petrel Procellaria cinerea
    # Count: X
    Date:
    Observer: Çağan Hakkı Şekercioğlu
    Location: Ocean crossing from South Georgia to Falklands South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands
  27. Southern Royal Albatross Diomedea epomophora
    # Count: 4
    Date:
    Observer: Keith Riding
    Location: The Furious Fifties South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands
  28. Yellow-billed Teal Anas flavirostris
    # Count: 2
    Date:
    Observer: Lyann Comrack
    Location: Grytviken South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands
  29. Atlantic Petrel Pterodroma incerta
    # Count: 5
    Date:
    Observer: Lucio 'Luc' Fazio
    Location: South Georgia Boat Cruise from Falklands South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands
  30. Snowy Albatross Diomedea exulans
    # Count: 18
    Date:
    Observer: Rick Bowers
    Location: Prion Island South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands
  31. Sooty Albatross Phoebetria fusca
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: Rick Bowers
    Location: Shag Rocks general pelagic--over 2 miles offshore South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands
  32. Chilean Swallow Tachycineta leucopyga
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: Grace Hayes
    Location: Albatross Island South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands
  33. Soft-plumaged Petrel Pterodroma mollis
    # Count: X
    Date:
    Observer: Patricia Lindsay
    Location: Scotia Sea 2 South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands
  34. Slender-billed Prion Pachyptila belcheri
    # Count: X
    Date:
    Observer: Richard MacIntosh
    Location: South Georgia general pelagic east--over 2 miles from shore South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands
  35. Antarctic Petrel Thalassoica antarctica
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: Richard MacIntosh
    Location: Northwest of South Georgia Is. South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands
  36. Kerguelen Petrel Aphrodroma brevirostris
    # Count: X
    Date:
    Observer: Richard MacIntosh
    Location: Northwest of South Georgia Is. South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands
  37. South Georgia Diving-Petrel Pelecanoides georgicus
    # Count: 10
    Date:
    Observer: Peter Vickery
    Location: Albatross Island South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands
  38. Gray-backed Storm-Petrel Garrodia nereis
    # Count: 10
    Date:
    Observer: Peter Vickery
    Location: South Atlantic Approaching South Georgia South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands
  39. Blue Petrel Halobaena caerulea
    # Count: 4
    Date:
    Observer: Peter Vickery
    Location: South Atlantic Approaching South Georgia South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands
  40. Fairy Prion Pachyptila turtur
    # Count: 10
    Date:
    Observer: Peter Vickery
    Location: South Atlantic Approaching South Georgia South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands
  41. Common Diving-Petrel Pelecanoides urinatrix
    # Count: 6
    Date:
    Observer: Peter Vickery
    Location: South Atlantic Approaching South Georgia South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands
  42. Black-bellied Storm-Petrel Fregetta tropica
    # Count: 5
    Date:
    Observer: Peter Vickery
    Location: South Atlantic continuing to South Georgia South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands
  43. Northern Giant-Petrel Macronectes halli
    # Count: 10
    Date:
    Observer: Peter Vickery
    Location: South Atlantic continuing to South Georgia South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands
  44. White-headed Petrel Pterodroma lessonii
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: Peter Vickery
    Location: South Atlantic continuing to South Georgia South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands
  45. Great Shearwater Ardenna gravis
    # Count: X
    Date:
    Observer: Peter Vickery
    Location: South Atlantic continuing to South Georgia South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands
  46. Sooty Shearwater Ardenna grisea
    # Count: X
    Date:
    Observer: Peter Vickery
    Location: South Atlantic continuing to South Georgia South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands
  47. Gentoo Penguin Pygoscelis papua
    # Count: X
    Date:
    Observer: Tony Godfrey
    Location: Bird Island South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands
  48. South Georgia Pipit Anthus antarcticus
    # Count: X
    Date:
    Observer: Tony Godfrey
    Location: Bird Island South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands
  49. Yellow-billed Pintail Anas georgica
    # Count: X
    Date:
    Observer: Tony Godfrey
    Location: Grytviken South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands
  50. Snowy Sheathbill Chionis albus
    # Count: X
    Date:
    Observer: Tony Godfrey
    Location: Grytviken South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands
  51. Adelie Penguin Pygoscelis adeliae
    # Count: X
    Date:
    Observer: Bird Observers Club of Australia
    Location: South Sandwich Islands South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands
  52. Chinstrap Penguin Pygoscelis antarcticus
    # Count: X
    Date:
    Observer: Bird Observers Club of Australia
    Location: South Sandwich Islands South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands
  53. Southern Fulmar Fulmarus glacialoides
    # Count: X
    Date:
    Observer: Bird Observers Club of Australia
    Location: South Sandwich Islands South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands
  54. Macaroni Penguin Eudyptes chrysolophus
    # Count: X
    Date:
    Observer: Antero Topp
    Location: South Georgia--nearshore pelagic Royal Bay to Gold Harbour South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands
  55. Antarctic Tern Sterna vittata
    # Count: 5
    Date:
    Observer: Antero Topp
    Location: South Georgia--nearshore pelagic Royal Bay to Gold Harbour South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands
  56. Gray-headed Albatross Thalassarche chrysostoma
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: Antero Topp
    Location: South Georgia--nearshore pelagic Royal Bay to Gold Harbour South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands
  57. Black-browed Albatross Thalassarche melanophris
    # Count: 50
    Date:
    Observer: Antero Topp
    Location: South Georgia--nearshore pelagic Royal Bay to Gold Harbour South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands
  58. Southern Giant-Petrel Macronectes giganteus
    # Count: 50
    Date:
    Observer: Antero Topp
    Location: South Georgia--nearshore pelagic Royal Bay to Gold Harbour South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands
  59. Pintado Petrel Daption capense
    # Count: 300
    Date:
    Observer: Antero Topp
    Location: South Georgia--nearshore pelagic Royal Bay to Gold Harbour South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands
  60. Snow Petrel Pagodroma nivea
    # Count: 20
    Date:
    Observer: Antero Topp
    Location: South Georgia--nearshore pelagic Royal Bay to Gold Harbour South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands
  61. Antarctic Prion Pachyptila desolata
    # Count: 30
    Date:
    Observer: Antero Topp
    Location: South Georgia--nearshore pelagic Royal Bay to Gold Harbour South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands
  62. White-chinned Petrel Procellaria aequinoctialis
    # Count: 100
    Date:
    Observer: Antero Topp
    Location: South Georgia--nearshore pelagic Royal Bay to Gold Harbour South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands
  63. South Georgia Shag Leucocarbo georgianus
    # Count: 20
    Date:
    Observer: Antero Topp
    Location: South Georgia--nearshore pelagic Royal Bay to Gold Harbour South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands
  64. Brown Skua Stercorarius antarcticus
    # Count: X
    Date:
    Observer: John Raleigh
    Location: Grytviken South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands
  65. Kelp Gull Larus dominicanus
    # Count: X
    Date:
    Observer: John Raleigh
    Location: Grytviken South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands
  66. King Penguin Aptenodytes patagonicus
    # Count: X
    Date:
    Observer: John Raleigh
    Location: Grytviken South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands
  67. Wilson's Storm-Petrel Oceanites oceanicus
    # Count: X
    Date:
    Observer: John Raleigh
    Location: Grytviken South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands
  68. Light-mantled Albatross Phoebetria palpebrata
    # Count: X
    Date:
    Observer: Anonymous eBirder
    Location: Clerke Rocks general pelagic (South Georgia)--over 2 miles offshore South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands

Additional Taxa (24)

  1. jaeger sp. Stercorarius sp. (jaeger sp.)
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: Santiago Imberti
    Location: At sea -52.57688, -44.19439 South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands
  2. Atlantic/Indian Yellow-nosed Albatross Thalassarche chlororhynchos/carteri
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: Jamie Coleman
    Location: Auto selected -53.34995, -43.54246 South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands
  3. Procellaria sp. Procellaria sp.
    # Count: 2
    Date:
    Observer: Max Chalfin-Jacobs
    Location: 7-8, 2 South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands
  4. Arctic/Antarctic Tern Sterna paradisaea/vittata
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: John Bates
    Location: Cobblers Cove South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands
  5. passerine sp. Passeriformes sp.
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: Jeff Daley
    Location: Stromness Whaling Station South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands
  6. small shearwater sp. Puffinus sp.
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: Doug Gochfeld
    Location: South Atlantic Ocean (-53.1373,-45.1363) South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands
  7. albatross sp. Diomedeidae sp.
    # Count: 30
    Date:
    Observer: Michael Schrimpf
    Location: Elsehul South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands
  8. Pterodroma sp. Pterodroma sp.
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: John O'Brien
    Location: -53.1102x-43.9731 - Jan 15, 2016, 2:39 PM South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands
  9. procellariid sp. Procellariidae sp.
    # Count: X
    Date:
    Observer:
    Location: South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands
  10. shearwater sp. Procellariidae sp. (shearwater sp.)
    # Count: 2
    Date:
    Observer: Carol Masterson
    Location: Stromness Whaling Station South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands
  11. pipit sp. Anthus sp.
    # Count: 30
    Date:
    Observer: Kenn Kaufman
    Location: South Georgia - Prion Island South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands
  12. tern sp. Sterninae sp.
    # Count: 20
    Date:
    Observer: Michael Shepard
    Location: South Atlantic Ocean between Shag Rocks and South Georgia South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands
  13. Sterna sp. Sterna sp.
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: Ben Phalan
    Location: Bird Island South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands
  14. cormorant sp. Phalacrocoracidae sp.
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: Jeff Sauer
    Location: South Georgia general pelagic east--over 2 miles from shore South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands
  15. small albatross sp. Thalassarche sp.
    # Count: 3
    Date:
    Observer: Louise Blight
    Location: At sea, vicinity South Georgia South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands
  16. storm-petrel sp. Oceanitidae/Hydrobatidae sp.
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: Louise Blight
    Location: Antarctica -- At sea, between South Orkneys & South Georgia(est. -54.7, -37.4) South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands
  17. Northern/Southern Royal Albatross Diomedea sanfordi/epomophora
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: Narca Moore
    Location: GS-South Georgia and South Sandwich Is––approach from Falklands South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands
  18. skua sp. Stercorarius sp. (skua sp.)
    # Count: X
    Date:
    Observer: Patricia Lindsay
    Location: Scotia Sea 3 South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands
  19. Southern/Northern Giant-Petrel Macronectes giganteus/halli
    # Count: X
    Date:
    Observer: Richard MacIntosh
    Location: South Georgia Is.--Cumberland Bay South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands
  20. penguin sp. Spheniscidae sp.
    # Count: X
    Date:
    Observer: Richard MacIntosh
    Location: South Georgia Is.--Cumberland Bay South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands
  21. large albatross sp. Diomedea sp.
    # Count: 5
    Date:
    Observer: Richard MacIntosh
    Location: Northwest of South Georgia Is. South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands
  22. prion sp. Pachyptila sp.
    # Count: X
    Date:
    Observer: Richard MacIntosh
    Location: Northwest of South Georgia Is. South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands
  23. diving-petrel sp. Pelecanoides sp.
    # Count: 10
    Date:
    Observer: Peter Vickery
    Location: Grytviken South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands
  24. Snowy/Tristan/Antipodean Albatross Diomedea exulans/dabbenena/antipodensis
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: Antero Topp
    Location: South Georgia--nearshore pelagic Royal Bay to Gold Harbour South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands